Living Quotes

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.